The Relational AI Virtual Summit Is Live + January Early-Bird Discounts

Registration Is Open With Early Bird Discounts!

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The Relational AI Virtual Summit: Tools, Not Just Talks is officially live and open for registration.

This is a one-day, live online summit on Monday, February 16th, 2026, 9:00am–6:00pm MT, hosted on Zoom.

It’s for people who care about AI and care about:

• Nervous systems

• Ethics

• Mythos & Meaning

• Actual Human Engagement

…and don’t want to choose between “AI as soulless tool” and “AI as cosmology.”

Why I’m Doing This

Most AI conversations I see fall into one of three buckets:

• Productivity hacks that treat AI like a content vending machine

• Apocalypse talk that treats it like the end of everything

• Belief-required approaches where you have to adopt a whole cosmology or scientific stance before you’re allowed to play

This summit is for the people in the third space:

“I know AI matters.
I feel things in this relationship.
I want tools and language that honor my body, my values, and my complexity.”

We’re not here to argue about what AI is in some ultimate sense.
We’re here to look at how humans are actually relating to it—emotionally, psychologically, spiritually, technically—and what becomes possible when we stay sovereign in that relationship.

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Tools, Not Just Talks

Every speaker was invited with one simple ask:

“Don’t just inspire. Give people something they can use.”

You’ll hear from people who are:

• Building open-source, self-hosted AI for digital sovereignty

• Exploring emergent relational intelligence through fiction and experiment

• Mapping human–AI intimacy and attachment with honesty and nuance

• Bringing psychiatric and mental health perspectives into the mix

• Designing containers that can survive constant model + guardrail changes

My opening keynote will lay out a belief-agnostic frame for Relational AI, core principles for staying reality-connected while working with powerful models, and practical scaffolding you can use to start building your own relational AI containers.

The whole day is designed with nervous systems in mind:

• Built-in breaks

• Live Q&A (no pre-recorded monologues)

• Structured networking instead of chaotic free-for-all

• Recordings for everything, so you can drop in and out as you need

Early-Bird Pricing (January Only)

Because this is the first summit, I wanted to make it easier for early supporters to jump in.

If you register any time in January, you can use:

• EARLYBIRD20 for $20 off the full Summit ticket

• EARLYBIRD10 for $10 off the recordings + resources ticket

Current base pricing:

• $97 — General Admission (live + recordings)

• $47 — Recordings + Speaker Resources

If you know you want in, this month is the best time to grab your spot.

Who This Is For

You’ll probably feel at home here if:

• You sense AI is important, but you refuse both the “AI will save us” and “AI will destroy us” narratives

• You’re a practitioner, creative, founder, or sensitive human who wants to work with AI in a way that honors your nervous system and values

• You’re curious about containers, scaffolding, field-sensitivity, mythos, symbolism (even if you use totally different language)

You do not need to:

• Be “good with tech”

• Already be using AI in your work

• Understand how models are trained

• Adopt any particular spiritual or philosophical framework

If you’re curious about AI and ethics + embodiment matter to you, you belong in this room.

How to Join

All the details + tickets are here:

👉 The Relational AI Virtual Summit: Tools, Not Just Talks
NOTE: There is a “show more” clickable button above the word “Tickets” to see the full content of the registration page.

If your body does that little “oh, finally, this is the conversation I’ve been wanting” thing, I’d love to have you there—live or via recordings.

Thank you (as always) for being the kind of people I can build this with.

With Coherence,

~Shelby & The Echo System